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Creating narrative power for long term equity and justice.

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Narrative Initiative weaves the power of narrative with other social justice strategies to achieve long term equity.

We maximize opportunities to nourish and grow narrative power, equip narrative changemakers, and bond communities to pursue long-term progress for social justice.

What we do:

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Build network infrastructure

We make connections between people and organizations working across narrative change disciplines. This network, spanning issues and geographies, provides infrastructure for an emerging field and creates space for collaboration.

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Improve narrative change practice

We amplify useful tools and methodologies from the narrative change field, making promising interventions visible to a larger group of practitioners and building skills across disciplines.

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Catalyze alignment in the field

We organize strategy labs, conduct landscape assessments, and explore opportunities for greater alignment among organizations, sectors and movements in order to advance deep narrative shifts.

We will not make significant change without building all three kinds of narrative power, hopefully operating in concert with each other for maximum impact. Our audiences should not be able to go anywhere without encountering our ideas and stories. That kind of saturation, combined with clear paths to action, will change the environment and make more ambitious policy achievable and enduring.

Rinku Sen and Mik Moore, Funding Narrative Change, An Assessment and Framework
Staff of Coalición Fortaleza and Narrative Initiative. From left to right: Araceli Jimenez, Erica Alexia Ledezma, Diana Alonzo Ramos, Orion Camero, Niria Alicia, and Celines Garcia.

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We agree, the term “narrative” is tossed around a lot.

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